To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.